Technological innovations can seem relentless. In computing, some have proclaimed that “a year in machine learning[1] is a century in any other field.” But how do you know whether those advancements are hype or reality?
Failures quickly multiply when there’s a deluge of new technology, especially when these developments haven’t been...
“Time flies,” “time waits for no one,” “as time goes on”: The way we speak about time tends to strongly imply that the passage of time is some sort of real process that happens out there in the world. We inhabit the present moment and move through time, even as events come and go, fading into the past.
But go ahead and...
Delivering a connection-building protein to star-shaped cells in the brain could reverse changes to neural circuits[1] seen in Down syndrome, according to new research my colleagues and I published in the journal Cell Reports.
Down syndrome[2] is caused by an error in cell division during development. Individuals receive three copies of...
In the home, the lab and the factory, electric fields[1] control technologies such as Kindle displays, medical diagnostic tests and devices that purify cancer drugs. In an electric field, anything with an electrical charge – from an individual atom to a large particle – experiences a force that can be used to push it in a desired...